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POEMS AND LYRICS.
XXXIII.
This life and her to know
For Spirit: with awakenedness of glee
To feel stern joy her origin: not he
The child of woe.
XXXIV.
But that the senses still
Usurp the station of their issue mind,
He would have burst the chrysalis of the blind
As yet he will;
XXXV.
As yet he will, she prays,
Yet will when his distempered devil of Self;—
The glutton for her fruits, the wily elf
In shifting rays;—
